Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wolfgang Hohlbein

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The result of the debate was Speedy keep. Nominator retracted.--Kungfu Adam ^(talk) 18:33, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wolfgang Hohlbein

WP:NN and especially WP:VAIN Universitytruth 07:59, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

• Comment Another Big in Germany entry. Seems very notable in his home country, not sure how that translates. ~ trialsanderrors 08:07, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
  • If he is notable in Germany, he is notable for us. Punkmorten 10:58, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep This says he has sold millions of books and reached Der Spiegel's bestseller list (though someone had better confirm that, my German is pretty rusty). Might be worth requesting a translation of the de: version though. Oldelpaso 09:04, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
• Strong Keep; sheesh, this guy has half a million hits on the German Google, over five hundred listings on the German-language Amazon.com site, and the German sales ranks for several of his books that I checked were between five and eight hundred, which is huge. I would be extremely interested in hearing nom's reasoning behind his assertions, because that's just the result of sixty seconds casual search. RGTraynor 09:31, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep as per above Travelbird 14:00, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
• Keep and do a translation as per Oldelpaso DavidHumphreys ^{SPEAK TO ME}ABOUT _{THE THINGS I MESSED UP} 14:11, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
• Retract nom, as he has pubs. Pulp fiction fantasy airport material, all of it, it seems. How do others (in English, French, Spanish, etc.) deal with lists of 'authors' vs. 'writers', BTW? I'm sure this writer should be on a list of German writers, but am unsure whether he should be on a list of German authors. Will add something to the list's talk page about this, and welcome your input. Universitytruth 14:13, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

  Comment Precedent here ~ trialsanderrors 16:26, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

  • Comment I think that WP:NN has been addressed sufficiently. The WP:VAIN issues (does anyone care what name he uses when he plays Eldar against friends???) can be taken care of with some pruning shears. Universitytruth 14:22, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.